Sneak Peek of Modern City Escape Music in Japanese Trailer

Over a week ago, we made available the full Classic version of City Escape’s stage music in Sonic Generations and the download ticker showed you all ate it up. Some even caught the Endless Mine reference within the auto-tuning (meaning yes, there was a point to the auto-tuning.)

Thanks to the Japanese trailer for City Escape, instead of the generic butt rock techno we got, we catch our first listen to the new modern remix of “Escape form the City”, featuring new vocals by series singers Tony Harnell and Ted Poley.

Opinion injection time: I don’t know about this one. I hope it’s just a studio draft because the vocals just sound like the singers are tired or have food in their mouths. There’s no strength in the guitars either. It just sounds passe and lackluster.

Gene is the ghost of a Floridian who froze to death in a Chicago winter. He now haunts a server inside the Sears Tower and does terrible things on this very website. Also something about Sonic 2006 100% twice. It was awful.

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Bad version… Very bad version… Maybe the dashing version will be better… Unless this IS the dashing version in which case… The normal running version… MUST be bluech… I’ll just get an MP3 of the wicked classic version or the original version and play it on my 360 when I play modern’s City Escape stage…

I’m more of a fan of the original City Escape, followed by Classic SG, then this theme. I don’t think it’s bad, but I agree with the “sounds like food in mouths” singing. I’ll wait for full judgement till I hear the full thing, though.

I think it sounds like when the singers try to ‘experiment’ with different pitches when doing life concerts. Overall it doesn’t seem finished but is far from bad. As long as they keep it a guitar focused affair this should be good.

Right at :30 is the part that bothers me the most. Too different for my likings. The Classic remix fared better, IMO. Too bad it’s not just a touched up version of the original, but hey, maybe it’ll sound better when it’s done.

I hope it isn’t. It doesn’t sound like it was fully mastered. You could hear differences in vocals, for example, if you listen to the production versions of the Sonic Heroes themes that were leaked out.

If this ends up being the final version, or the final sounds quite close to this, then I’ll just be muting the music and playing the original Escape From The City when I play Modern’s stage. The whole thing just bothers me. And the bass at the start. The fuck is that shit? THAT IS NOT ESCAPE FROM THE CITY

While I think it’s a good idea to do an alternative take on the song, the version from SA2 had a lot more energy to it and the vocal work does seem worse. Not to mention the bass intro in the new version sounds extremely half assed compared to what was easily one of the most memorable parts of the original version of the song.

maybe it’s one of those “add up” things… like, Sonic 06 blasted it, but it still stood… Sonic 4 blew it up, but there was still something to maintain… but this? this was the last straw, and boom. Marble Zone.

Music has been the one constantly good thing about the sonic series, until sonic generations modern sonic music. Wasn’t that keen on the green hill remix either. Classic city escape was way cool though.

I kinda assumed they would use the SA2 version for the Modern City Escape theme. I mean, what’s the point of doing a guitar version if they already have a guitar version that everyone already knows and loves?
All they needed to do was tweak it for the BOOST version and everyone’s happy.

Two things:
-There’s no common sense in this world anymore.
-Example: CAPCOM ARE PRACTICALLY BOYCOTTING MEGAMAN right now. Fans are denied of Mega Man in Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3, Mega Man Universe and Mega Man Legends 3 are cancelled! There are things to justify UMVC3 (such as ENOUGH CHARACTERS ALREADY REPRESENTING MEGA MAN, I MEAN COME ON THEY ALSO HAVE FRANK WEST IN THERE. HIS REAL MEGA BUSTER IS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU PEOPLE!? Yes, that’s how desperate they are for the Maverick Hunter). Apparently there’s no common sense for both Capcom AND the fans which complain (I’m fresh off of the Shoryuken comments…)

I feel like the original is waaaaaay better. I can only imagine what they would have done to something like Green Forest… and to think, there was maaaad hype for the “City Escape” redo when it was announced some time back.

Actually the “generic butt rock techno” is an instrumental version of “Na Na Na” by My Chemical Romance… I find it sad how you don’t recognize this immediately, as it is an incredibly popular and well known song…

It seems …..ok. I mean, it is not the best in the world, but it’s not a bad start. The bass line at the beginning is pretty good, but the guitar… sounds like shit. I can play this through my old Marshall amp, that gives me an ass load of feedback, and still make it sound better. The vocals..are ok, I mean, it’s kinda how Cash Cash is doing City Escape Classic’s vocals. It’s not terrible, but it’s really half-assed. I mean, hopefully, praying to God on this one, that this is really not the final product, because if it is, then this game might have lost some of my respect.

Being a musician myself, i can tell this is just a recording that has not been studio dubbed yet, the guitar parts are not finalized other wise they would be more dominant, or at least as much as the bass. I do like how it sounds, in terms of the arrangement it is bad ass. much more technical than the original. I love how tony harnell and ted poley switch up on the vocals, thats pretty awesome. for all of you overly dramatic nit pickers out there, (sadly many of my fellow sonic fans) this is not the final version and you will all eat your words when it is released.

I had a feeling as much that it hasn’t been fully mastered yet. Crush 40, for example, sound quite weird before being cleaned up in post-production.
Good catch with the 2P City Escape reference. I honestly forgot about that version of the song. Here’s a link for everyone else to check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3B_C3UYnQA

plus i dont think any of you realized that the guitar part is very similar if not making reference to Sa2 battle’s multiplayer mode, when you play SA2 battle there is an alternate city escape level and the song is different than the original city escape. the stop and go quality of the guitar in this song is very similar to that of the added SA2 battle multiplayer level music.

Yep. The usual little teaser for a level they’ll show off in the future. I wonder how they’re going to change up the Unleashed and Colors levels so they don’t just feel like recycled unused levels from their respective games.

Bassline is funky fresh, guitar work is interesting, drums could use some more punch, and the vocals sound pretty bland in my opinion. They lack that sparkle and edginess that made the original fun to listen to. That being said, I still don’t think it’s bad. It’s cool, and I’m sure they’ll be touching it up in post.

That remix must be a rehearsal. It sounds like they got to together and were like “ok ready to jam guys, 1, 2, 3,” *plays* And Sega just threw in the song for background music. (That’s the most logical answer) It’s a good remix, I like it, but I personally can not believe that a musician would allow something like that to be the final product. It’s got “rehearsal” written all over it. But it’s good so the final product should be sweet.

Well, it looks like I’ll be playing classic Sonic’s version of City Escape for this level. I really, really, don’t like the way this sounds. I think it starts off good, but then just gets meh. The vocals sound “off”, and the guitar just doesn’t seem right. Damn. I thought since classic’s was great this one would be too.